That's why I mentioned George Best, because it's probably the most consistent album I know, and when I'm in the mood for it, it's great. ALL albums (off the top of my head) have one or more *slow* tracks, by virtue of the fact that they usually have a standout *great* track. It's all relative. Or something.

Pavement- Slanted & Enchanted
Beastie Boys- Paul's Boutique
Public Image Ltd- Metal Box
The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Subtle- For Hero: For Fool
Neutral Milk Hotel- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Talk Talk- Laughing Stock
The Avalanches- Since I Left You
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
Company Flow- Funcrusher Plus

Plus:
- my version of 'Inches' where it ends at 'Reprobates Resume' and misses out the inconsistent-sounding earlier bits which end the actual record (because this is actually a much more complete album that way)
- my version of 'Westing' which misses out all the tracks between 'Krell Vid User' and 'My Radio' which re-occur in the Slanted & Enchanted bonus box set

I've got hold of it recently and it is very very good. Secret Meeting has the potential to be one of my favourite songs, but is it really a 10? I may be missing something. Why do you think it's a 10/10?

From the first moment, there’s no messing. One drum-beat and you’re into ‘Secret Meeting’, burrowing it’s way into your brain subtly. And it just doesn’t stop. Relentlessly melancholic, impossible to ignore and undeniably brilliant. Just when you’ve got over how good one song is, along comes another to blow it out of the water. This is an album of highlights, repeatedly and relentlessly making you feel privileged to be listening to it. It’s an album of quiet reflection, for those moments when you need to be alone with your thoughts. This album is a quiet night in your flat, the rain pouring outside, a bottle of red wine in front of you. This album is the drive into the hometown you’ve been away from for far too long – it’s the moment the city lights come into view in the distance and you know you’re there.

It is a rare beast of an album that feels both uplifting yet reflective, a truly unparalleled masterpiece in controlled and dramatic emotions. Hear the strings on ‘Daughter of the Soho Riots’ and melt. Hear the way he sings ‘I’m so sorry for everything…’ at the end of ‘Baby, We’ll Be Fine’ and means it.

So what does it sound like? The Tindersticks with a little more red wine? Interpol with better songs and more sunshine? Who cares. You need to hear this album, your life is bordering on incomplete without it. The REAL album of the year.

Daughter of the Soho Riots always reminds me of sitting on the bus on the way home on a winter's evening, rain pissing down outside. I just GOT this album then after having it for ages and hardly listening to it...

It's intelligent, melancholic and tuneful, which are three things that appeal to me. I love the richness and cleanness of its sound and the way his voice mixes with the two guitars. I just think it does what it does better than almost every other album it its peer group (the exception being Automatic For The People).

The secret with any album by The National is just to keep listening to it over and over and over and over and...

Eventually, you'll get it.

This process works with any of their albums, even their first self-titled effort.

On any given day, any song on any album could be your favourite National song. It's quite amazing really. You can listen to a song 50 times and it just sort of floats over you. Then one day, out of the blue, you'll actually HEAR it and you'll wonder, "Why didn't I notice this song before." And then you can add it to the list of your favourite National songs.

i can see what you mean with track 9, on the first listen of the cd i was pleasantly drifting off to sleep with it on and that fucking track came on and frightened the shit out of me. but its perfect in my head...i ve listened to it far too much now though

The Shins: Chutes too narrow
Death Cab: Transatlanticism
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
Interpol: TOTBL
EITS: the earth is not a cold dead place
Common: Be

then close but not quites would be

Mew: any of their albums but my fave is Triumph for man
Idlewild: 100 broken windows or the remote part
Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor
The Twilight Sad album, i need more time on it to decide if its perfect or not

but I think as far as recent albums:
The Libertines - Up the Bracket
Elliott Smith - Basement
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
are worth 9.8 each. I realise that marking out of 100 is ridiculous but if it's a case of thinking, "well they only dropped a certain amount" then it makes sense.
Going back, I think Unknown Pleasures is close, but I just can't manage to like I Remember Nothing. I don't know why.

Of Montreal - Sunlandic Twins - Absolutely fell in love when i listened to it and listened repeatedly and still can't work out how they manage to sound like nothing else around or so ridiculously happy.

I have little difficulty giving a near perfect album 5 out of 5 but 10 out of 10 seems a lot tougher for me...

I'd have to say (chronologically/alphabetically by artist):

The sixties:
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Rubber Soul
Highway 61 Revisited
Pet Sounds
Revolver
Blonde on Blonde
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Are You Experienced?
Axis: Bold as Love
Something Else by the Kinks
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Electric Ladyland
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
White Light/White Heat
Abbey Road
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II
Five Leaves Left
The Velvet Underground

The seventies:
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One
Led Zeppelin III
Bryter Layter
Loaded
Master of Reality
Led Zeppelin IV
Meddle
Vol. 4 by Black Sabbath
Pink Moon
Houses of the Holy
Dark Side of the Moon
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Country Life (9.7 probably, extra .3 for the album cover)
Another Green World
Physical Graffiti
Wish You Were Here
A Night at the Opera
Animals by Pink Floyd
Suicide
77
Pink Flag
This Years Model
London Calling
Entertainment!

The nineties:
In a Priest Driven Ambulance
13 Songs by Fugazi
Goo
Bullhead
Nevermind
Trompe Le Monde
The Chronic
Honey's Dead
Your Arsenal
Loveless
Slanted and Enchanted
The Prodigy Experience
Automatic for the People
Dirty by Sonic Youth
Debut by Björk
Where You Been
Earth 2: Special Low-Frequency Version
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
In Utero
Siamese Dream
Doggystyle
Bee Thousand
The Downward Spiral
Definitely Maybe
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Weezer
Post by Björk
Clouds Taste Metallic
(What's the Story) Morning Glory?
The Bends
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Washing Machine
Odelay
Antichrist Superstar
Ænima
Pinkerton
Homogenic
Perfect From Now On
Homework
Zaireeka
The Lonesome Crowded West
OK Computer
Amplifier Worship
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Keep it Like a Secret
The Soft Bulletin

Century 21:
Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
The Moon and Antarctica
Mass Romantic
Stankonia
Rated R
Relationship of Command
Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse
Oh, Inverted World
Is This It
Rings Around the World
White Blood Cells
De-Loused in the Comatorium
Sung Tongs
Funeral
Leviathan
Satanic Panic in the Attic
Feels
Frances the Mute
Black One
Amputechture (I'm sure I'll never hear the end of that one)

and more recently...
Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
Sound Of Silver
Cryptograms
Mirrored
Person Pitch
and...
Strawberry Jam maybe. That's probably more of a 9.8 or 9.9.

Patrick Wolf-Lycanthropy
Patrick Wolf-Wind in The Wires
The Eighties Mathcbox B-line disaster-horse of the dog
Aesop Rock-labor days
The Beatles-Rubber Soul, The White Album, Sgt Peppers,Help!
Burial-Untrue
British Sea Power-Decline of British Sea power
Efterklang-Tripper
Fugazi-End Hits, 13 songs, in on the kill taker.

So your question just doesn't work for me 'cos even the albums I'd give 10/10 to have flaws but if they didn't have the flaws I wouldn't love them enough for them to be 10/10.

Suede - Dog Man Star
REM - Automatic for the People
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Elliott Smith - From a Basement on a Hill
Maybe Love's Forever Changes
Hefner's Fidelity Wars is in no way a perfect album but quite possibly a 10/10 album for me.

You didn't quite get the album title right, hurahh anyway, I'd give Born Sandy Devotional 10/10 too. I'll also join in with The National love in and say that I'd also give Alligator and Boxer the full ten.

The Can, Branca, Slint and Galaxie 500 might be obvious to some but I am in agreement. Definitely not uninteresting though. In fact that whole list is interesting but personally I'd be in agreement with those four.